21–27 Jul 2013
The University of Birmingham
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Heavy vs. light flavor energy loss within a partonic transport model

25 Jul 2013, 14:20
20m
The University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham

Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom

Speaker

Jan Uphoff (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Description

The full space-time evolution of gluons, light and heavy quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied within the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach to MultiParton Scatterings (BAMPS). We discuss in detail for all flavors the influence of elastic and radiative energy loss with a running coupling. Radiative processes, in particular, are implemented through an improved version of the Gunion-Bertsch matrix element, which is derived from comparisons to the exact result, explicitly taking finite heavy quark masses into account. Consequently, we present results of this updated version of BAMPS and compare them to experimental data at RHIC and LHC. In detail, the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow of charged hadrons, heavy flavor electrons as well as muons, D mesons, and non-prompt J/psi are discussed. The latter two are especially sensitive to the mass difference of charm and bottom quarks. Furthermore, we make predictions where no data is available yet.

Primary author

Jan Uphoff (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Co-authors

Carsten Greiner (University of Frankfurt) Oliver Fochler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Zhe Xu (Tsinghua University Beijing)

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